Hello Health Champions. Today I want to talk about the corona virus COVID-19 the
death rates and the associated risk factors but more importantly I want to
talk about what can we learn from these numbers and what do they mean to you by
the end of this video you will have a completely new understanding of what the
immune system is and the difference it can make in the fight against the corona
virus. Coming right up.
hey I'm dr. Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former Olympic decathlete and if
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anything early on the death rates for the
coronavirus have been estimated between three and four percent and that was from
a study of about 50,000 people out of China after their situation had
stabilized once they had some experience to draw from later on they have
estimated now the last number I saw was that it's around 1.4 percent but some
researchers suggests that it's actually a lot lower than that because there are
so many people who have a mild infection or who may be asymptomatic that never
gets entered into the statistics because the authorities never find out about
them so some researchers say it might be as low as 0.5% but the number isn't
really that important we just want to start relating the numbers and
understand what does the range mean and we also want to keep in mind that
statistics are the numbers around all of this but it's people who are suffering
and dying and even one person who dies unnecessarily from neglect or ignorance
is a tragedy so we do know that age and cardiovascular disease and diabetes and
so forth they are risk factors that will increase death rates so then people
think that oh well if I don't have any of these if I'm young and reasonably
healthy then there is no risk well that's not true because even though your
risk might be low it's never zero so we all need to be careful and we all need
to play our part in this believe it or not the first risk factor is gender so
if you are male you are more at risk because women are healthier in general
2.8 percent of men versus 1.7 percent of women
died in this study out of China and if we average those then we get a little
over 2% which is the death rate that came out of that study now the next
thing that we've heard a lot about is age that the older people are much more
at risk so for people over 80 years old the death rate was fourteen point eight
percent almost fifteen percent and then the younger you get the less risk there
is so between 70 and 80 the risk is 8% between sixty and seventy three point
six between fifty and sixty one point three and once you get down to forty to
forty nine years old the risk is only 0.4% and then it drops slightly from
there and it's zero point two percent down till people under ten years old and
the percentage is zero even though I did hear that a young girl died who was
under the age of ten and when we look at the average then we get we use the same
average of just over two percent that we got from all the total of the men and
the women so as we can see there is an enormous difference between the old and
the young it goes from being extremely risky to hardly any risk at all then we
want to look at the risk by underlying condition the death rate by underlying
condition and for people who had cardiovascular disease the death rate
was ten point five diabetes seven point three chronic respiratory disease was
six point three hypertension was six percent cancer five point six and if
they had no known underlying condition the risk was zero point nine percent and
again the average little over two now we want to keep in mind here though that
the zero point nine percent were people who had no known no documented
underlying condition and that didn't mean that they were perfectly
healthy and if we look at these conditions cardiovascular disease
diabetes hypertension these are primarily associated with insulin
resistance and metabolic syndrome and we also know the people with insulin
resistance and metabolic syndrome have more of just about every condition that
there is so most of these increased risks are due to metabolic syndrome and
insulin resistance it's not the only factor obviously but it is the primary
factor and if we also weigh in the fact that if someone has diabetes that they
have a documented a1c of probably 6.5 or so or over then these the none they also
include people who are on their way to insulin resistance so it didn't mean
that they were perfectly healthy and we want to keep all of these things in mind
as we move forward so if we put these side by side we can see that age for
sure is the biggest risk factor and again you can't really do much about
that but cardiovascular disease has almost the same range the same spread so
most of the risk factors are something that we can do something about and we
also want to keep in mind that it's not the age in itself that is the risk
factor but it's the fact that most of the elderly people also have some of the
underlying conditions so now if we compare the range if we look at the
14.8% of 80 plus year-olds versus 32 not 39 year olds we have a seventy four
times the 7400 percent increased risk from being older then we also have to
ask though if almost 15% died then what was it that helped eighty-five percent
of them to live and if we look at the risk factors if we compare the
cardiovascular disease versus those people
didn't have any underlying condition now we see that there's a eleven hundred and
sixty-six percent difference at twelve times difference so what am I trying to
show with these numbers with these huge ranges I'm simply trying to show that
there is a difference what is the difference between someone in this
category and someone in this category because the virus is the same okay
the virus is the constant it is opportunistic the body and the immune
system is the variable so what is it about this one versus this one and what
is it about this one versus that one so let's think about health let's think
about vitality let's think about the body's resistance as a charged battery
if a battery is fully charged it has a lot of capacity to do work to do its
intended purpose but as the battery loses charge it has less and less
capacity it has less and less reserves left to do what it's supposed to do and
then we want to contrast that with how much does the body have to do how much
work is there to be done how many tasks and chores are there to solve so as we
age we tend to lose charge on the batteries but we also tend to increase
the burden the total charge the total number of things to resolve and handle
so up here we can call those resources or health or immune system or stamina or
vitality or energy all of these things that we know are associated with health
they are also your immune system right your whole body is your immune system
and then these things down here we want to think of them as the sum total of the
body burden what is burdening the body what's the work
load right so toxicity and infections increase the workload deficiencies
nutritional deficiencies if the body has to have something and it doesn't get it
now you have a deficiency the body can't perform the job at its best if you have
metabolic syndrome insulin resistance diabetes then you have a group of
conditions also associated with cardiovascular disease and diabetes and
degeneration is another factor that is part of the stress on the body as we age
we tend to decrease on the resources and the longer we live that more we tend to
accumulate body burden and toxicity and deficiency and metabolic syndrome and
degeneration so some of the factors involved in this process are gender like
we talked about but again we can't do anything about that
also age is a factor that we also can't do anything about however there is
something called biological age so you could be 80 years old and be here or you
could be 80 years old and be here and that's the choice that we have not
necessarily in this moment but in the long run that's something that we can
influence insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome
those are other factors that we have a lot of control over not in the
short-term not in a matter of days but in the matter of weeks and months we
have a tremendous amount of control so if we put all this together we can think
of this as our energy as our resources and as we age that decreases but how
fast it decreases we have some influence over and then we can think of the body
burden as the red line that increases the longer we live the more we
accumulate then this green area would indicate your health Reserve so the
higher the green bar is the of the red bar the more health reserves
you have the more resources you have to tackle challenges and then over here
obviously the red over the green would be a deficiency that means it's a
deficit that's the degree to which you're vulnerable and if we equate this
to the death rate then we would see that some people have a zero point something
death rate maybe even zero point zero something okay no one is completely
bulletproof and we often have things that we don't know about so we shouldn't
take anything for granted but if your body does its thing
then you have close to zero percent death rate if you have on the other side
of the spectrum your death rate is close to a hundred percent there are some
people who are pretty much doomed they're so close they're so feeble
they're so fragile that any little thing can knock them over I heard someone say
that the immune system had nothing to do with the corona virus that it's just
gonna run its course and I don't know where they get such an understanding
because if the immune system had no role in this then we would have either a zero
percent death rate or a hundred percent death rate that would be nothing in
between either the virus would be so weak and feeble that it couldn't hurt us
and then we wouldn't need an immune system or the it would so overpower our
bodies it would just be so virulent that our immune system had no say in it and
then the death rate would be a hundred percent so that's ridiculous okay the
range is zero to a hundred and everything in between
depends on your body's ability to defend itself and defeat the virus so here is
the spectrum here's your health spectrum from best to worst so what are some of
the things that you can do to start moving no matter where you
are you can always start moving in the right direction so what are some of the
things you can do well nutrition you can eat real food whole
food lots of fresh food that has real nutrition you can take some supplements
if you don't get all of it from the food you get some quality supplements for
vitamins and minerals vitamin C vitamin D zinc good quality minerals they all
help support your body because that immune system that body needs resources
you can make sure that you don't stress too much that you get proper sleep you
can look for information that give you a little bit of hope instead of just
despair instead of just looking at all the worst news you can listen to
something uplifting where you can select some videos or some information they
give you a more balanced view you can go for a walk and get some fresh air
obviously you want to avoid the crowds but there's plenty of places where you
can go and not run into crowds a moderate amount of exercise is a
tremendous immune booster doing some intermittent fasting to help your body
clear out some of that sugar and some of that insulin resistance and also
allowing some autophagy to boost your immune system so don't think of these as
a quick fix there is no quick fix for real health but what do you have to lose
if you've never done anything serious about your health you've been thinking
about it well why not take this time right now just start cut out the sugar
make some good decisions and if you've never meditated before go right today
and start meditating find a guided meditation or just sit down and relax
and think about something that makes you feel good so no matter what your risk is
it's never zero so do what you can to protect yourself follow the guidelines
diligently and for the next few weeks or months make sure that you do everything
that's recommended you wash your hands and you wipe your surfaces and objects
and don't touch your face avoid crowds all of the good things you've all heard
so do it but even more important than protecting yourself is to protect others
and the main thing about this pandemic is to contain it to stop the spread so
do your best to stay at home if you don't have to go out then don't avoid
crowds and avoid risk groups so again it's not just that you want to avoid
sick people to not get it you want to think well maybe I'm an asymptomatic
carrier and then you want to avoid meeting with elderly people you want to
avoid the other risk groups such as cardiovascular disease or cancer so
avoid sick people more so not to give it to them if they have some other disease
than Corona so I want you to take responsibility for this do your part and
remember that if you are super healthy your biggest problem is that you may
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you so much for watching I'll see you in the next video